guild of book workers :: california chapter :: winter 2018 :: no. 79 Quarterly Newsletter California Chapter from the Chapter Chair chapter chair Dear Chapter Members, Marlyn Bonaventure leave 2017 with the satisfaction of having worked with the most Secretary thoughtful, hardworking, and encouraging group of people. I’d like to thank Sue Ann Robinson these members who have helped in the planning, organizing, and follow- Newsletter Editor through in all that has been done for our GBW , CA chapter. You know the board members–Barbara Wood, treasurer; Sue Ann Robinson, secretary; Jean Gillingwators Jean Gillingwators, newsletter editor; and Rebecca Chamlee, communication tech. Treasurer These people have held positions much longer than a single tenure and have done Barbara Wood amazing jobs in their offices. However, you may not know some of the volunteers Programs chair who regularly have offered their time and input; they have come to meetings, offered to contact presenters and put together workshops, opened their homes for meetings and studio visits, and organized trips to exhibitions and special collections. Our Technology/webmaster volunteers have sat at GBW tables promoting our chapter at Codex, the Printers’ Rebecca Chamlee Fair, and the book fairs in Pasadena. These are the members who put together our most fabulous exhibition in 2016 and they are Carolee Campbell, Vicke Selk, Contributions for the next newsletter Elaine Nishizu, Patty Owen, Judi Delgado, as well as the board members. My great are due by March 15, 2018. appreciation to each of you. The Spring issue will cover the period This last year your chapter held an exhibition tour, 4 workshops and 1 studio visit from April to the end of which was a sharing of work, as well as a social get-together. Our year’s goals were to June, 2018. bring down the price of the workshops and to find venues in varied locations around LA County to help those who are always driving the farthest, hoping these might Please send items to newsletter editor encourage greater member participation. Did it make a difference? I’m not sure. We Jean Gillingwators at need to hear from you, our membership. In the next few weeks we will be sending [email protected]. out a very simple survey to get a better idea of how this chapter can serve you. Please participate. The Newsletter is a publication of the California Chapter of Best wishes for 2018 and among these, health and peace. the Guild of Book Workers Hope to see you soon, and is distributed to its members. To become a member, write to the membership Marlyn Bonaventure chairman, Guild of Book GBW CA Chapter Chair Workers, 521 Fifth Ave., New York NY 10175, or go to guildofbookworkers.org. NominationsMake a Difference!/Elections Contact info: Be part of your book community. Nominations for GBW California Chapter Email: california@ Officers are now open for president, vice president for programs, secretary, treasurer, guildofbookworkers.org newsletter editor, and exhibitions chair. Officers serve two-year terms. Nominate yourself or another person, with his/her permission, and send the name and the Website: gbwcaliforniachapter. position to [email protected] by March 17, 2018. wordpress.com ~ 1 ~ Field trip makers with exquisite Japanese papers, tools, and supplies. Another influence for Marshall began in the 1990s USC Special Collections Visit when she lived for a time in Portland, Maine and met Thursday, January 18, 2018, 10:00 AM many talented artists and craftspeople. Currently with little time for personal work, Marshall incorporates Limited to fifteen participants, a visit to the University printmaking, textile techniques, lettering, pattern of Southern California Special Collections of the design, and collage into her artist books. Additionally, Doheny Memorial Library will include artist books, Marshall has learned from Suzanne Moore, Tim Ely, historic illustrated books, and books with rare Karen Kunc, Mary Laird, Lisa Rapport, Bettina Pauly; bindings. Our docent hosts will be Melinda Hayes, and she has collaborated with Scott Mullenberg, David Katherine Kapisdelis, and Susan Luftschein. We will Wolfe, Joel Benson, and others for client commissions. meet at the library at 10:00 AM. To reserve a place and receive detailed information about parking and Linda Marshall will be a vendor at Letters California lunch, email your name and contact information to Style conference February 16-19, 2018, Cal Poly Pomona. See details on page 5, and if you are in [email protected]. Southern California come see beautiful Washi and tools—and meet Linda! Wait! There Is More! Spotlight Linda Marshall supplied the paper for Helen Hiebert’s online class Paper Weavings. Linda MarshallResponding to interview Helen Hiebert is offering a new ONLINE class about questions, owner of paper weaving. Create six paper weavings over six Washi Arts Linda weeks. This in depth experience into paper weaving will Marshall reminds readers introduce you to new ways of working with paper in that Washi=Japanese two- and three-dimensions. We’ll begin by exploring and shi=paper, so Washi basic paper weaving techniques as we create a set of is translated Japanese four note cards. Next, we’ll make a shaped weaving, paper. From Toronto, a table runner, a window/wall hanging, a double Marshall attributes her pamphlet stitched book with a woven paper cover, and love of paper to her a woven paper lantern. We’ll explore a unique cutting parents. Her mother technique that integrate layers of paper. Use your own was an adventurous and curious artist and poet “who papers, purchase a kit containing the papers you see LOVED paper” and her father was an engineer who above, or mix and match! All this as you work from brought home blueprints, and Marshall used that the comfort of your own home or studio, share ideas paper for drawing.was introduced a teenaged Marshall with an on-line community, view the work of fellow to Japanese paper by her mother, a frequent traveler participants, and save on travel costs! to Japan. Her mother also bought paper at the then small store-front Japanese Paper Place, owned by Watch the video, read more about it, and register here: Nancy Jacobi. Linda’s mother shared her inspiration www.helenhiebertstudio.com/classes and love for Japanese textiles, pattern, design, customs, and traditions. Professionally, Marshall worked in interior architecture and graphic design, sometimes using Japanese papers in that work. About four years ago, Marshall travelled to Strasbourg France, visiting a lovely stationery store. She noticed that Japanese Paper Place product filled the window display. Returning to Toronto, Marshall connected with Nancy Jacobi, who had sold her store and now focuses on worldwide wholesale paper sales accounts. At lunch, Jacobi encouraged Marshall, who founded Washi Arts, serving calligraphers, book artists, printers, conservators, architects, designers, artists, book binders, and print ~ 2 ~ S/NO-CALFebruary 3-4, Weekend 2018 The Northern California Hand Bookbinders Club will host GBW Southern California friends for a weekend book extravaganza! Saturday, February 3 – Hands-on Projects • Gazelle and Goat Studio will host a day of projects organized around: • Woven and Interlocking Book Structures based on Claire Van Vliet’s book • Paste Papers Tools and Techniques will be provided to create a variety of papers to take home • Washing: HBC members will demonstrate how to wash, de-acidify, re-size, and line one item. • Send your ideas for a fourth activity to GBWCalifornia Sunday, February 4 – Tour Day • Morning: San Francisco Public Library view highlights from the Robert Grabhorn Collection on the History of Printing and the Development of the Book. Works from the 1400s to the present, includes printing masterpieces, experiments, and even mistakes. More information: Alastair Johnston’s excellent essay on the Grabhorn Collection on the SFPL website at sfpl.org/?pg=2000637201. • Lunch: SF Moma: See the Walker Evans’ exhibit. • Afternoon: Tour East Bay printers and binders’ studios. Details TBA. • “Closing Party” at the home of Vanessa Hardy. RSVP to [email protected] and include your name and mailing address. CheckSurvey your Coming email in early February for the GBW BOOK:Book Idioms a closed book, don’t judge a book by its cover, California Chapter survey. Your ideas and your voice oldest trick in the book, take a leaf out of someone’s are important. GBW California depends on member book, cook the books, book smart, bookworm, in my participation, so please respond to the survey when you book, take a leaf out of someone’s book, in someone’s receive it in a February email. Your voice is important! book, to close the books, to throw a book at, to have your nose in a book, to blot your copybook READ: to read someone’s mind, to read something JoinCalifornia the Guild Chapterof Book Workers, on Facebook CA Chapter into, to read the fine/small print, read my lips Facebook Group. Join the group on Facebook: Guild of Book Workers, CA Chapter. You can post pictures PAPER: on paper, put on paper, white paper, paper and information about your work! Be part of this book trail, hot paper, put pen to paper community! You don’t have to be a member of Guild PAGE: on the same page, page through, read from the of Book Workers, but it would be nice if you were! same page Anyone already on Facebook can join. ~ 3 ~ exhibition In the Stacks: An Occasional Look at Curated by Carolee Campbell, a two-part exhibition of Southern California book artists will be on display in Library Special Collections San Francisco. Contributed by Cherry Williams, Director Distinctive Collections Special Collections & University Archives, Riviera Library, University of California, Riverside willPart I:be Catching on view the at Light: San BookworksFrancisco from Center Southern for theCalifornia Book, The Special Collections & University Archives 375 Rhode Island Street, 94103, February 2-April 29, Department of the University California Riverside is 2018.